Fantasy Friday: Week 5 EPL Fantasy Tips

Each week Fantasy Friday will bring tips for Premier League fantasy leagues including matchups to watch out for. Keep up to date on players injured, suspended or questionable for each week.

With the fifth week of the Premier League coming up there have been several teams that played matches in both the Champions League and the UEFA Cup tournaments. This could have implications for your EPL fantasy team depending on whether they were injured or played in the game and may be benched this weekend.

For this week’s Fantasy Friday I will be focusing on young up and coming players to look at for each position. They may not be the best players for their position, but typically these young players are cheaper and can be used to fill in slots.

The thing about these young players is that they are often unproven and could definitely be a risk. They aren’t always considered as first team regulars so there is a risk in whether they will start, be subbed early, be a used substitute, or not be played at all.

However, when these young players really take off, they can be a massive boost for your team since, if they are bought early, can provide you cheap points and gain in value. This certainly isn’t always the case, so I will try to focus on some of the players who are not quite as highly rated as say Oscar, Eden Hazard, or even Theo Walcott.

As a cutoff I’m going to go with age 23 (except for keepers) and will throw in a few 24 year olds to look at.

Goalkeepers: Since it is widely considered that goalkeepers don’t fully mature till later I’m capping the keepers at age 26. There are quite a few young goalkeepers out there and many of them are quite good. This is also one area where you won’t necessarily find great value.